BNP fail in bid to stop postal votes

THE British National Party has failed in its bid to stop postal voting in Kirklees.

The BNP has three members on Kirklees Council but their supporter’s bid to halt the postal vote at the forthcoming May elections was rejected.

The action by the BNP member was turned down at Bradford County Court.

At the hearing yesterday the application for an injunction to stop the Returning Officer from issuing postal ballot papers was refused by the judge, who also made the BNP pay the council’s costs.

The BNP’s application was later condemned by council leader Clr Robert Light, who said it had been a futile waste of time and a cheap publicity stunt.

Clr Light said: “This was simply a gimmick by the BNP to get cheap publicity.

“Postal voting is part of electoral law that all councils follow.

“All the BNP has done is waste the time of council officers by going through the process of addressing what was always going to be a futile action by the perpetrators of this bogus case.

“The judge clearly considered that the application was ill-conceived by not only rejecting the application but also in awarding the council its costs against the BNP.

“It is an absolute waste of time to challenge statute in this way.”

BNP group chairman Clr Roger Roberts said it was a move made by an individual member, not a councillor.

But he added: “I would personally support the idea.

“Postal voting is fine for the disabled and the elderly but it is very open to fraud.

“When you get 20 votes coming out of a one-bedroom flat, it is patently wrong.”

Huddersfield Examiner

Now here is a good one….

Alan Girvan-Saviour of the USA……..tit!!

We are all accustomed to the fact that the idiots in the BNP tell some of the biggest whoppers around.

However some tell bigger whoppers than others.

Take Alan Girvan for instance,Dewsbury East BNP candidate.

Can you spot the lie in this coverage on Alan from 2005?

Just to help any fascists who might be reading we’ve marked it in red.

Bush’s man makes Independent bid for Yorkshire seat

A FORMER advisor to American president George W Bush is fighting the Dewsbury seat as an independent.

Alan Girvan said today he thought he could be the right man in the right place for fed-up voters.
Father-of-two Mr Girvan, 36, was born and educated in Heckmondwike.
He is a film director, writer and producer and recently left his job as IT sales account manager at AA Training, Batley, to fight the election.

He was immediately involved in the United State’s response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001 when he was called on by Mr Bush’s former cyber security chief, Richard Clarke, to create a secure airport computer system.

Mr Girvan said he had been previously been invited to the US to create an alternative to the Internet.
“It was when I was working on that, the 9/11 attacks took place and I was one of the people they called in to ask about setting up a secure computer system for airports.” The idea was rejected by Congress because of the cost.

Mr Girvan said of his decision to stand in Dewsbury: “I think there is a sense of apathy and despair but you don’t have to vote for the same old parties.
“I am standing on a number of issues, important to Dewsbury, chief among which is the state of the hospital. Taxpayers are paying a lot of money, yet they still might have to spend £40 on a taxi to get to Pinderfields, or get six buses.

“I am also concerned about the future of Dewsbury Market and our estates, which need funding. The people have long lost out to a Huddersfield-centred Kirklees.”
He added that the politicians had over-estimated people’s feelings about Iraq.
“It might be a bigger issue down south but in this area I think people are more bothered about heroin addicts shooting up in the street, or burgling to feed their habit.”

Other candidates are Shahid Malik (Lab); Sayeeda Warsi (Tory); Kingsley Hill (Lib Dem); Brenda Smithson (Green); Alan Girvan (IND) and David Exley (BNP).

Yorkshire Post